January 16, 2008

I posted this video (reposted below) on Youtube as part of my weekly Cracked blog and went to bed. By the time I woke up this morning, several interesting things had happened. One was that the video went kinda-viral and racked up 5,000 views and 65 comments in the two hours it was online, making me the #10 most viewed comedian on Youtube for January 16th, 2008 (a distinction I'll be sure to shoehorn into every conversation at my High School reunion).

Another interesting thing is that (according to a guy in London who emailed me, so take it with a grain of salt), a brief clip of my video was shown on English news as part of a story about the whole "Tom Cruise is Nutzo" general melange. So, that's cool.

Not cool is that within two hours, my video had been yanked at the request of the Church of Scientology. I reposted it at FoD, which is why you can watch it now (unless it was taken down again, in which case you can't). So enjoy it while it lasts!

In order to aid your viewing pleasure, I'll tell you that the general premise of the vid is that in the real interview (which Tom gave when he won a Scientology award four years ago), they use a lot of jump cuts. So I decided to imagine what would happen if the cameras had kept rolling. The result of that now:

January 10, 2008

January 9, 2008

We don't know about some of you, but here at TAM, we take promises seriously. If you say you are going do something, no matter how drunk you are, you should feel guilty and terrible and wrong if you don't do it. This is proof that our very own Michael Swaim keeps his promises. And no man, woman, or robot has the right to claim otherwise.

January 2, 2008

Way back when we filmed The Interrogation, something totally unexpected happened: we finished early. Anyone with a camera can tell you that this is basically unheard of, so we decided to take full advantage of the extra time and improvise a bonus sketch then and there.

So here it is: the sketch we made up, from scratch, on the spot, in about twenty minutes. Enjoy!